Thursday, July 30, 2015

The Top 3 Healthy Habits That Are Keeping You Fat

The food and fitness
world are full of conflicting rules.

The food and fitness worlds are filled with conflicting information and outdated “rules.” As a general rule, the best nutrition and fitness guidelines to follow are the ones that work for your particular body, but there are a few that just don’t cut it if your goal is to get cut and lose weight.

I’m going to tell you
which rules to break to lose weight the easy way.

In this three part series I’m going to share the top three
healthy habits that are keeping you from losing weight – and what to do instead
to lose weight and get strong and fit – fa’ good!

With action steps to
take now to start burning fat for good.

I’m also going to share an action step at the end of each
video so you know exactly how to stop making the healthy mistake and start
turning your body into a fat burning, metabolic machine.

Let me preface this by genuinely appreciating you for having
committed to these nutrition and fitness guidelines for so long and then
lovingly and strongly suggest that you stop. It’s not that these are unhealthy,
but they are counterproductive to
your goal if your goal is to lose weight.

Let the countdown
begin.

Number 3: Calories
don’t matter.

I know this is going to be hard to believe, but calories do
not matter as much as we’ve been told. The old rule “eat less and exercise
more” will actually make you GAIN weight in the long term. Eating less and
exercising more tells your body that we’ve got a major problem and it’s that
we’re starving. Short term, you may see results. But long term, starvation
sends a cascade of hormonal signals to keep you packing the pounds on and send
you scarfing down the first crap you can find. Dropping calories below intake
(or burning) makes sense when you’re playing a numbers game but your body
doesn’t operate on numbers, it operates on nutrients.

Your body is a
computer that runs on nutrients instead of code.

Think of your body like a computer. Computers run on code.
When there’s a break in the code or a piece missing, the programs start to
malfunction, slow down, or stop all together (you know it’s bad when that blue
screen with all the random letters pops up). Your body works similarly. Only
instead code, it runs on nutrients. Each of the hundreds of systems in your
body needs nutrients, vitamins and minerals (like code) to function at its
peak.

When nutrients go
missing, systems break down.

When nutrients go missing, systems, including your
metabolism, start to slow or come to a screeching halt. The really amazing this
about the body is that if you’re getting the right nutrients in the right amounts,
you naturally start to eat the right
amount. Your body’s appetite mechanism will shut down when it gets the right
nutrients (or code), so you don’t have to do any of the work.

Calorie counting
weight loss foods short change you on nutrients.

Focusing on calorie counting typically includes picking
processed and packaged foods that are marketed as healthy weight loss foods. These
foods play the numbers game beautifully – but fail miserably at the nutrient
game and leave your body’s appetite mechanism searching for more. You
experience this as cravings.

Here’s what to do
instead.

Swap out the calorie counting for an emphasis on high
nutrient-dense foods. Dark leafy greens like kale, cabbage, collards, spinach,
bok choy, brussel sprouts and arugula take cake on nutrient punch. But all
veggies provide different nutrients.

Color and variety are key. Mix it up. Eat a big serving of
vegetables at each meal and watch video two for the exciting reason that adding
butter to your veggies will help you lose weight – especially around the belly.

Your action step.

Start each day this week with a nutrient-packed green
smoothie. My favorite chocolate peanut butter morning milkshake is below!

In video two, I’m
going to share the number one food you have to make up with if you want to lose
weight…trust me, you’re going to like it!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fat Burning Milkshake:

2 Handfuls of spinach (big ones!)Small handful of unsalted peanuts (or 2 Tablespoons of natural peanut butter)2 Tablespoons of ground flax1 Tablespoon of Maca Powder (great for the sex drive and thyroid – but we’re
most excited about the sex part!)½ of a banana (Whole if you want it sweeter)Almond milk to the level of thickness you like your milkshakeBlend a ton and serve topped with chunks of frozen dark chocolate
*The chocolate falls to the bottom and you get it last! Let’s be honest – this
is the entire reason I drink the shake.

7 comments
:

Amazing post! I am glad to know about these diets that are keeping me fat. Now I won’t take these foods. Hey, I heard Green drink helps in fat loss. It would be great if you can share some reviews and recipes of this herbal drink!!

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